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Trying to dispel reports that pop diva WHITNEY HOUSTON and BOBBY BROWN are divorcing, Houston's spokeswoman has announced that the singers are merely "having marital difficulties." She added that they are attempting to work things out and would appreciate some privacy, thereby guaranteeing that scads of tabloid photographers will now be following the couple's every move. A marriage on the rocks isn't the sum total of Brown's problems. He has been arrested twice this year for battery and also awaits a court date for allegedly kicking a security guard in West Hollywood...
...more interesting cultural developments of the '90s is America's fascination with drag queens. Stemming from the blond wig and impossibly long legs of ubiquitous model-cum-disco diva, Rupaul, and the popularity of last year's fantastic, flip-flop-dress-filled Australian import, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," the popularity of drag now includes huge numbers of non-traditional (i.e. straight) fans...
Nomi's mentor, of sorts, is the show's bitchy diva, Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon), who in turn flaunts her own desire for the nubile Nomi...
...what catches the ear of any diva devotee is Twain's easy virtuosity. Attend to her reading of this verse: "Any man of mine'll say it fits just right/ When last year's dress is just a little too tight/ And anything I do or say, that'll be O.K./ When I have a bad hair day." The throaty intimacy, the smart selling of each phrase, the whisper of lightly ironic girl talk in "just a little too tight," the clear but not prissy enunciation--these are signs of a true storyteller in song. And since she delivers...
Annie Lennox follows "Diva," her aptly titled 1992 album of her original music with a recording of 10 old and new songs written by others. "In Divadom," says TIME's Richard Corliss, "an album needs only one great song. Medusa has two." The first, a cover of "No More 'I Love You's,'" is an evocation of love's demons in which a woman's bed of sad passion telescopes into a child's bedroom fears. A reworking of Paul Simon's "Something So Right" closes out the album and answers the pessimism of the first tune with a simple...